CITY OF
CITY COUNCIL AGENDA
Regular City Council Meeting
January 13, 2009
City Council Chambers – Town Hall
No Closed Session
7:00 P.M. Open Session
NO CLOSED SESSION SCHEDULED
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to the City Council either with or after
distribution of the agenda packet, are available for public inspection in the
City Clerk’s Office at City Hall,
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Thank you for your cooperation.
7:00 P.M. OPEN SESSION
1.
CALL
TO ORDER & PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG
2. ROLL CALL: Acuna, Borelli,
Hagen, Machado, Rivas
3. ANNOUNCEMENTS
TO THE PUBLIC
3.1
Highway 50 Operational Improvement
Report (Mr. Restaino)
Mic Restaino,
CalTrans Senior Resident Engineer, will update the Council on the various
aspects of the Highway 50 Operational Improvement Project.
4. CLOSED
SESSION REPORT – City Attorney Driscoll
5. ADOPTION
OF AGENDA
6. CEREMONIAL
MATTERS
6.1 Oath of Office to Police Officer Eric Nunes
and Police Dispatch/Records Technician
6.2 Presentation of National Night
6.3 Proclamation Commemorating the Historic
Fountain Tallman Soda Works Building and Commending the El Dorado County
Historical Society for its Preservation Efforts of the Fountain-Tallman Museum
6.4 Motion for the City Council to Adjourn the
Meeting Sine-Die, and Appoint the City Manager as Temporary Chairperson
Recommendation to adjourn
the meeting Sine-Die and to appoint the City Manager/Attorney as Temporary
Chairperson. The Mayor will then pass
the gavel to the City Manager/Attorney.
At this time, the City Manager/Attorney will call the meeting to order
and request nominations from the Council for the election of Mayor. Any Councilmember may make a nomination, and
a second. A voice vote will be taken. Following a majority vote by the Council, the
City Manager/Attorney will pass the gavel to the newly elected Mayor who will
call for nominations for Vice-Mayor.
6.5 The Mayor Calls for Nominations for
Vice-Mayor
The newly elected Mayor
will call for a motion and a second to nominate candidate(s) within the Council
for the position of Vice-Mayor. Following
a majority vote for the election of Vice-Mayor, the regular order of business
will resume.
7. PUBLIC
COMMENT – BRIEF – NON-AGENDA ITEMS
This portion of the meeting is reserved for persons
wishing to address the Council on any matter not on the Agenda that is
within the subject matter jurisdiction of the City Council. State law prohibits the Council from acting on items not listed on
the Agenda except by special action of the City Council under specified
circumstances. The Mayor reserves the right
to limit the speaker’s time to three minutes.
The Mayor will recognize you and when you come to the microphone, please
state your name for the record. You are
not allowed to make personal attacks on individuals or make comments which are
slanderous or which may invade an individual’s personal privacy.
7.1
Oral Communication
Speakers are limited to three minutes. State law prohibits the Council from acting on items not listed on the Agenda except by special action of the City Council under specified circumstances.
PLEASE GIVE ANY WRITTEN MATERIAL PRESENTED AT THE MEETING TO THE CITY CLERK FOR THE PUBLIC RECORD.
7.2 Written Communication
8. CONSENT
CALENDAR
NOTE:
All matters listed under the Consent Calendar are considered routine and
will be enacted by one motion by roll call vote unless any member of the
Council or audience wishes to remove an item for discussion. The reading of the full text of all
Resolutions will be waived unless a Councilmember requests otherwise.
8.1
Minutes
of December 9, 2008 (Ms. Zito)
Recommendation to approve the Minutes of the
regularly scheduled City Council meeting of December 9, 2008.
8.2
Warrant Registers(Mr. Warren)
Recommendation by the Director of Finance to approve the Warrant Registers.
8.3 Payroll Registers (Mr. Warren)
Recommendation by the Director of Finance to approve the Payroll Registers for pay periods 13 and 14.
8.4 Request
to Declare all Remnant Office Supplies, Equipment and Furniture From Old City
Hall as Surplus (Mr. Pesses)
Resolution No.
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Recommendation by the Director of Public Works that
the City Council adopt a Resolution declaring all remnant items such as
obsolete office supplies, equipment, and furniture (detailed list attached)
currently remaining at Old City Hall as surplus, with an estimated salvage
value of $0.00, and to direct staff to donate, recycle and dispose of said
items in the most expeditious, low cost manner possible.
8.5 Retainer
Agreement with Law Offices of William Wright for Legal Services (Mr.
Driscoll)
Resolution
No. ______
Recommendation by the City Manager/Attorney that the
City Council adopt a Resolution authorizing the City Manager to execute a
retainer agreement with the Law Offices of William M. Wright.
8.6
Acceptance
of Easement Grand Deeds for Sewer Easements for the Highway 50 Operations
Project ( Mr. Tippett)
Resolution Nos. ____________
Recommendation by the City Engineer that the City
Council adopt Resolutions for the following action:
1.
Accepting the Easement Grant Deeds for Sewer
Easements attached hereto and incorporated herein by reference, and authorizing
the Mayor and City Clerk to execute same; and
2.
Authorizing the City Clerk to record the Easement
Grant Deeds with the Office of the
9. ITEMS PULLED FROM THE
CONSENT CALENDAR
10. ORDINANCES
– None Scheduled
11. PUBLIC
HEARINGS – None Scheduled
12. DISCUSSION/ACTION
ITEMS
12.1 Pre-Cap-to-Cap
Trip and Sac Metro Chamber Cap-to-Cap Trip
2009
(Mr. Driscoll)
Recommendation by the
City Manager/Attorney that the City Council consider taking the following
actions:
1.
Authorize a Pre-Cap-to-Cap trip
(“Pre-trip”) and select the City representatives for the trip; and
2.
Authorize City participation in the Sac
Metro Chamber 2009 Cap-to-Cap trip and select the City’s representatives for
that trip.
13.
COUNCILMEMBERS REPORTS/ITEMS INITIATED
BY
COUNCILMEMBERS
14. STAFF
REPORTS
15. UPCOMING
ITEMS
16.
ADJOURNMENT
The
next Regular Council meeting will be held on January 27, 2009: 6:00 P.M. Closed
Session; 7:00 P.M. Regular Session.
Susan Zito,
CMC
City Clerk
I, Susan C.
Zito, CMC, City Clerk of the City of
Declare that
the foregoing Agenda for the January 13, 2009
Regular
Meeting of the
Was posted
and available for review on January 8, 2009
At the City
Hall of the City of
The Agenda is
also available on the City website at
Signed this
eighth day of January, 2009 at
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Susan C.
Zito, CMC, City Clerk